Your question was voted down. From ["What is reputation? How do I earn (and lose) it?"](https://askubuntu.com/help/whats-reputation): > **You lose reputation when:** > > * your question is voted down: −2 --- Voting is when someone clicks the up or down arrow to the left of a question or answer. Those arrows look like this on the main site: ![Voting arrows](https://i.sstatic.net/hnLGH.png) When your question is voted down, that means someone clicked on the down arrow.